12:29 AM,
Jan. 19, 2013

When a combine collided with a minivan last October, three members of an Attica family were killed.

Written by

Sophia Voravong
svoravong@jconline.com

Criminal charges will not be filed against a West Point man accused of causing a combine-minivan wreck Oct. 30 in rural Tippecanoe County that killed three members of an Attica family - Damara Fox, 15, and her parents, Daniel, 62, and Stacey, 40.

Tippecanoe County Prosecutor Pat Harrington said Friday that his office recently met with a relative of the Foxes to explain that, after reviewing the sheriff's investigation, no crime was committed by the John Deere combine driver, Carl McFarland, 36.

Two other Fox children, Demetria, 17, and Dakota, 13, and a family friend, Margaret Carpenter, ...